ABSTRACT
One of the important arguments that seemed to be the key argument for liquidation of the mines was reduction of maintenance costs and recovery of mining enterprises and national economy as a whole. But, as practice shows, such liquidation of mines has neither improved the ecological situation, nor solved any other problems that emerged during their exploitation and liquidation. All of this is related to the fact that the mine closures were not preceded by the comprehensive scientific assessments and forecasts for the state of environment in these regions as well as no consequences of further influence of the liquidated mines on the components of the environment were studied. In particular, such unreasoned and unreasonable closure of mines may lead to catastrophic consequences both ecological and social as the coal industry is a very complicated multiindustrial production and economic complex, which is a heavy industry not only in content but also in terms of a high level of environmental risk.
